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The challenge of the Asian economic crisis in the late 1990s has placed pressure on the Japanese economy to change, caus

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Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan
0521654254, 9780521654258

Ageing is widely recognised as one of the social and economic challenges in the contemporary, globalised world, for whic

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This edited volume discusses major issues in present-day science and technology education (STE). It is divided into thre

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